2015 NJCL CERTAMEN ADVANCED DIVISION ROUND ONE Version 2 1: Which of the following Latin words does NOT belong because of its part of speech? temō, tegō, terō, texō, tentō TEMŌ B1: Which of the following Latin words would be most unwelcome in a house? fornix, fornāx, forēs, formīca FORMĪCA B2: Identify any TWO of fornix, fornāx, or forēs. FORNIX = ARCH/VAULT // FORNĀX = OVEN/ FURNACE // FORĒS = (DOUBLE/FRENCH) DOOR/ ENTRANCE 2: What Roman author, a native of Tagaste, innovatively wrote an autobiography that focuses not on his merits and accomplishments, but on his identity as a “humble sinner who…by the will of God has found the path of salvation”? (ST.) AUGUSTINE/ AURELIUS AUGUSTINUS B1: What is the title of Augustine’s autobiography? CONFESSIONS B2: The sack of Rome in 410 AD and pagans’ subsequent attacks against Christians, prompted Augustine to defend his faith in what 22-book magnum opus? THE CITY OF GOD/ DĒ CĪVITĀTE DEĪ 3: To what classification of numerals do triplex and quadruplex belong? MULTIPLICATIVES B1: To what classification of numerals do bīnī and trīnī belong? DISTRIBUTIVES B2: To what classification of numerals do biduum and bimēstris belong? TEMPORALS 4: When a servant of Lucius Opimius was killed in a brawl, the senate declared its first senātūs cōnsultum ultimum against what tribune, who shortly thereafter met his death in 121 BC, two years after his first tribunate? GAIUS (SEMPRONIUS) GRACCHUS B1: What tribune of 100 BC was another victim of the senātūs cōnsultum ultimum and met his death at the hands of an angry mob while surrounded by the troops of Marius? (L. APPULEIUS) SATURNINUS B2: Name the friend of Saturninus and quaestor of 100 BC who attempted to run for the consulship of 99 BC but was killed as well as a result of the senātūs cōnsultum ultimum. (C. SERVILIUS) GLAUCIA 5: What daughter of Priam and Hecuba married Aeneas and bore Ascanius? CREUSA B1: Give another name for Ascanius. IULUS / ILUS B2: In one version of the fall of Troy, Creusa is captured by the Greeks. Name the goddess who saved her. CYBELE / APHRODITE / VENUS 6: Give the comparative and superlative forms of the adjective malus. PEIOR // PESSIMUS B1: Give the comparative and superlative forms of the adjective idōneus. MAGIS IDŌNEUS // MAXIME IDŌNEUS B2: Give the comparative and superlative forms of the adjective benevolus. BENEVOLENTIOR // BENEVOLENTISSIMUS ADVANCED ROUND I – PAGE 1 7: What Roman author was made an official both of public libraries by Trajan and of imperial correspondence by Hadrian, positions which undoubtedly helped him research material for his collection of biographies of the first emperors titled Dē Vītā Caesarum? (GAIUS) SUETONIUS (TRANQUILLUS) B1: How many biographies are contained in Suetonius’ Dē Vītā Caerarum? TWELVE B2: With what men does Suetonius begin and end this collection? JULIUS CAESAR (BEGIN) and DOMITIAN (END) 8: Who was aided by Jupiter's eagle in acquiring a jarful of water from the Styx, a task assigned by Venus? PSYCHE B1: The eagle helped because he owed a debt to Cupid. According to Apuleius, with what task did Cupid assist the eagle? CARRYING GANYMEDE TO HEAVEN B2: A lame beggar asking for rope, a floating corpse asking for a lift into Charon's ferry, and women asking for help weaving were all tricks by Venus intending to make Psyche drop what objects necessary for her trip to the Underworld? HONEY CAKES 9: Which basilica in the Forum Rōmānum in the 5th century AD was located closest to the Colosseum? BASILICA NOVA / BASILICA OF MAXENTIUS (& CONSTANTINE) (PLEASE HAND OUT THE VISUAL) B1: Please identify the building labeled “A”. TABULĀRIUM B2: Please identify the building labeled “B”. TEMPLE OF SATURN 10: Translate into English, “Quisquis amat valeat.” MAY (S)HE WHO LOVES BE WELL / STRONG B1: Translate into English, “Pereat quī nescit amāre.” LET HIM / HER PERISH WHO DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO LOVE B2: Translate into English, “Bis tantō pereat quisquis amāre vetat.” LET WHOEVER FORBIDS LOVE / LOVING PERISH TWICE AS MUCH / BY TWICE SO MUCH 11: What Roman author, a plebeian by birth and the first Latin writer of Roman nationality, wrote a work entitled Bellum Poenicum? (GNAEUS) NAEVIUS B1: What is the meter of Naevius’ Bellum Poenicum? SATURNIAN B2: What powerful Roman family did Naevius make an enemy? METELLI 12: What use of the dative case is Vergil using in this line from book two of the Aeneid, “Nōn ego … Graiīs servītum mātribus ībō.” DATIVE WITH SPECIAL VERBS B1: Venus says to Aeneas on the night of the fall of Troy, “Ēripe, nāte, fugam fīnemque impōne labōrī.” Identify the case and use of labōrī in that sentence. DATIVE WITH A COMPOUND VERB / DATIVE WITH A SPECIAL VERB / SEPARATION / REFERENCE B2: What use of the dative case is Vergil using in the line, “Longa tibi exsilia et vastum maris aequor arandum?” POSSESSION / AGENT / REFERENCE ADVANCED ROUND I – PAGE 2 13: The abandonment of Sicily and the payment of 3200 Euboic talents were terms of the treaty ultimately enforced by what Roman admiral who ended the Carthaginian threat to Rome for two decades with his victory in 241 BC at the Aegates Islands? (C. LUTATIUS) CATULUS B1: How many permanent provinces did Rome possess before gaining Sicily from Carthage? ZERO B2: Give the name of the next province acquired by Rome. CORSICA ET SARDINIA (ACCEPT IN ENGLISH AND IN EITHER ORDER) 14: What English derivative of the Latin verb nūbō is synonymous with “wedding”? NUPTIAL(S) B1: What derivative of omnis is a means of public transportation? (OMNI)BUS B2: What derivative of sequor, sequī is synonymous with “next”? SUBSEQUENT / SECOND / ENSUING 15: In Pelasgia, Philyra gave birth to what son who became king of the Centaurs? CHEIRON B1: What form did Cronus take when he lay with Philyra? STALLION B2: Into what did Zeus change Philyra at her request? A LINDEN TREE 16: What native of Spain and friend of the satirist Persius died by his own hand at the age of only 26 years, but not before completing nearly 10 books of his account of the civil war between Pompey and Julius Caesar? (MARCUS ANNAEUS) LUCAN B1: What man can best be considered the hero in Lucan’s epic? POMPEY / CATO THE YOUNGER B2: What emperor, after discovering that Lucan had joined a plot against his life, ordered the author’s suicide? NERO 17: Translate the verb in the apodosis of the following English sentence: “If the gods favor us, we will win.” VINCĒMUS B1: Using a deponent verb, translate the following sentence into Latin: “If the queen had died, the king would have cried.” SĪ RĒGĪNA MORTUA ESSET, RĒX LACRIMĀVISSET / FLĒVISSET B2: Translate the following sentence into Latin: “I would rejoice if I were queen.” GAUDEREM SĪ RĒGĪNA ESSEM 18: What Roman general was supported in his bid for the imperial throne by the Egyptian governor Tiberius Alexander and the Syrian governor Gaius Licinius Mucianus after the death of Nero in 69 AD? VESPASIAN B1: Who led the Danubian legions to victory over Vitellian forces at Cremona before Mucianus could bring his troops to Italy? (M.) ANTONIUS PRIMUS B2: Name either of the two Vitellian commanders at the battle of Cremona who were subsequently captured and executed. (FABIUS) VALENS // (A.) CAECINA (ALIENUS) ADVANCED ROUND I – PAGE 3 19: Listen to the following passage, which I shall read twice, then answer the question that follows in English: Aliī cēnsuērunt fūnus ā triumphālī portā dūcendum esse, praecēdente Victoriā, canentibus nēniam puerīs; aliī fuērunt quī crēderent appellātiōnem mēnsis Augustī in Septembrem mūtandam esse quod Augustus hāc genitus, illā dēfunctus esset. (repeat) The question: Name two things that some believed must be part of this funeral procession. MUST BE LED FROM THE TRIUMPHAL GATE, WITH VICTORIA/VICTORY PRECEDING, WITH CHILDREN SINGING FUNERAL SONG / DIRGE B1: What did some believe must be changed? THE NAME OF THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER (TO AUGUST) B2: According to this passage, in what month did Augustus die? AUGUST 20: On the island of what seafaring people did Odysseus wash ashore alone, after Poseidon destroyed his last ship? PHAEACIANS B1: What was the name of the island? SCHERIE/DREPANE B2: Who was the king of the island at the time of Odysseus’ arrival? ALCINOUS ADVANCED ROUND I – PAGE 4 2015 NJCL CERTAMEN ADVANCED DIVISION ROUND TWO Version 2 1: What author, a native of Carthage, was brought to Rome as a slave and, with support from the Scipio family, wrote comedies? TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) B1: What play of Terence was unable to reach its conclusion until its third performance, notably being skipped over by audiences who preferred to watch gladiator fights and tightrope performances? HECYRA B2: In crafting his plays, Terence practiced contāminātiō, the mixing of plots taken from two or more previously written plays. From what Greek playwright did Terence borrow much of his material in this effort? MENANDER 2: What nursemaid recognized her master Odysseus when she saw a familiar scar while bathing his feet? EURYCLEIA B1: When the disguised Odysseus met with Penelope, he pretended that he was the brother of what king of Crete? IDOMENEUS B2: According to one tradition, Penelope bore Odysseus a second son after his return. Name this child. ACUSILAUS / PTOLIPORTHES 3: To what classification of verbs do mītēscō and labāscō belong? INCEPTIVES / INCHOATIVES B1: To what classification of verbs do ēsuriō and parturiō belong? DESIDERATIVES B2: To what classification of verbs do cavillor and cantillō belong? DIMINUTIVES 4: Who succeeded in banishing Agrippina the Elder shortly after the death of Drusus II but was ultimately denounced by Tiberius and murdered despite his position as consul of 31 AD and sole Praetorian prefect? (L.